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Experiments in Light by Gyorgy Kepes. Forty-five panels depict what he called the ‘new landscape’ of scientific imagery-microscopic minerals, cellular patterns, and tissue fibers-as well as his own experiments with camera-less photographic techniques.
This exhibition explores the question of art’s relevance in a scientific age through the work of Hungarian-born American artist, designer, and visual theorist Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001).

Forty-five panels depict what Kepes, associated with Germany’s Bauhaus and Chicago’s New Bauhaus, called the “new landscape” of scientific imagery—microscopic minerals, cellular patterns, and tissue fibers—as well as Kepes’s own experiments with camera-less photographic techniques.
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